Word: unitization
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
While posing as the Sultan of Zanzibar, he reviewed a unit of the British fleet at Portsmouth, England. With his "suite,"* Cole rode down on a special train for the review, and he noticed that the dining-car attendants were without white gloves. He had the train stopped and white gloves were procured from the next town, as "His Royal Highness" was unused to being served by ungloved attendants. The actual review of the fleet was carried out successfully...
...some 20 major agreements concluded between Soviet Russia and the U.S., Moscow has broken nearly all (except the military wartime agreements), from the settlement establishing diplomatic relations (wherein Moscow promised to stop supporting U.S. Communism) down to the Potsdam pact (wherein Moscow promised to treat Germany as an economic unit...
Once a policy is set, N.A.M. weakens it by insisting on "unit thinking and unit action" among members. The effect has been an "exertion of pressure" rather than an "exercise of leadership." Conventions are managed "in such a way that conflicting points of view are either suppressed or quickly compromised into meaningless platitudes...
Professor Yeomans, who served under President Lowell as Dean of the College during most of the 1909 to 1933 regime, traces President Lowell's "effort to make the student the educational unit and to help him to educate himself...
Barnaby was high on both the Crimson representatives on the H-Y unit, pointing especially to Backe's nine-and-five record against eastern top-notchers. Ager made an even better showing, but his lack of tournament play and dearth of experience on grass courts will be a handicap...